Comment Debian at it's core (Score 2) 244
Ubuntu is still *mostly* Debian packages, IIUC.
In other news... Debian is approx. 18 years old.
Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs 1452
Garabito writes "Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has posted his not-so-fond memories of Steve Jobs on his personal site, saying, 'As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.' His statement has spurred reaction from the community; some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice."
FSF Uses Android FUD To Push GPLv3 282
jfruhlinger writes "We've already seen claims from Edward Naughton and Florian Mueller that most Android distributors are in violation of the GPL — claims that the open source community has, for the most part, rejected. Therefore it's disheartening to see that the FSF is using this line of reasoning to push the GPL v3 over the supposedly more troublesome GPL v2. The FSF's press release on the subject emphasizes 'worries' without bringing up a specific concrete case of infringement — a classic FUD technique."
Comment Re:Write once, debug everywhere (Score 1) 47
After writing new pages for a site, I still to this day have to spend extra time getting it to work on IE7/8. All the other browsers (pretty much) work the same. But I regularly have to do things slightly differently so that IE renders pages the same as the other browsers.
So, not so nostalgic for me!
Comment Re:Ubuntu One (Score 1) 482
I think a requirement (unstated, but implied) would be that you can run the server yourself. So I would guess that Ubuntu One is probably not what the OP was looking for.
Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues 166
CWmike writes "A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge damages from Google. The damages owed to Oracle, if granted by federal Judge William Alsup for the US District Court for Northern California, would 'far exceed any money Google has ever earned with Android' and could lead to a rewrite of Android's Dalvik virtual machine, considered integral to Android and used by Android device manufacturers and potentially thousands of Android app developers, wrote one blogger, Florian Mueller, who writes about intellectual property issues involving the software industry."
Comment Re:Omg..... (Score 1) 132
I think by "paper", they probably meant newspaper. Unless they were just referring to a sheet of British A4 they found somewhere.
Comment Re:Could the summary be more terrible? (Score 1) 1075
Apple *can* use GPL'ed software. Their business strategies are their own choices. So they may not *want* to. But they still *can*.
Comment Re:NO... (Score 1) 292
And even bigger question here is... Why does Florian Mueller FUD keep getting posted on /. as "news"? *Surely* the editors know by now that he's a paid opinionist and a troll?
Comment Re:Recovery Fairy Tales again (Score 1) 274
1. No incentive.
I don't think this is true. The prestige and publicity gained from being the group to beat the challenge should be sufficient incentive.
2. No disassembly.
3. No longer running.
4. Full disclosure.
No argument here!
Comment Re:Didn't we decide we don't want this (Score 1) 286
With regard to the Digital Economy Act 2010:
The Lib Dems promissed to repeal it if elected.
The Tories said that if they were elected, they would drop any "flawed" legislation. Shortly after, Cameron said that "rejecting the Bill then or reconsidering the entire piece of legislation now would be an unacceptable set-back for the important measures it contains."
After the election, the LibDem-Conservative coalition released the Great Repeal Bill to undo some of the over-legislating of the Labour party. Sadly, the Digital Economy Act wasn't on the list.
Comment Googe more interested in apps than users (Score 1) 299
I proposed something to Google that would certainly help with this issue. But they seemed more interested in bending over for the app. developers.
Comment Re:I suppose it's nice (Score 1) 148
All configuration systems will take some time. All you are saying is that the autotools could be more optimal, which is hardly a "new problem that autotools creates".
And as for checking for strcpy() and then failing at link-time from a missing dynamic library symbol, the developer can check for dynamic library versions during the configuration. Short of having the configuration system parse the whole source code (in any language!), I don't see how else it can know what symbols it would need to check for anyway - this can only really be resolved at link-time.
Comment "all" they share is the name... (Score 1) 131
To make this perfectly clear – the game is being reimplemented from scratch; all they share is a name
Isn't this one of the main bones of contention though? The www.nexuiz.com URL no longer takes you to the GPL project it used to, it displays a page about Illfonic's new console game and there's a tiny link in the corner of the page that takes you to the original project page!
Couldn't they have used a different name for what is, essentially, a different game?
Comment Huh? (Score 1) 308
This is hardly news...
